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Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine's preeminent authors and cultural commentators. In recognition of his literary writings and his role as a public intellectual he has received numerous awards including the Herder Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the...

For more than 20 years now, the publishing industry has been highly influenced by innovations in digital technology. This is not the first time that technological changes affect the book trade. Both the printing press and industrialized production...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian literary world has not only experienced a true blossoming of women's prose, but has also witnessed a number of female authors assume the roles of literary trendsetters and authoritative critics of...

The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of European Realism is the first English-language monograph on one of Hungary’s—and Central Europe’s—most important modern authors. Using a thematic approach that privileges literary characters as stand-ins...

With the acceleration of the globalization process over the last decades, the understanding of translations as privileged forms of cultural interference has constantly advanced. However, a translational approach to national cultures is absent from the...

This book is a collection of articles written by international scholars and dealing with passing from a textual and cultural perspective. All these explorations of a complex identity phenomenon that defies reductive dualities result in scholarly...

Examines translations by canonical Romanian writers Lucian Blaga, Constantin Noica, and Emil Cioran, arguing that that their works reveal a new, "minor" mode of national identity. Society for Romanian Studies Biennial Book Award Studies of the...

Twentieth-century Polish literature is often said to be a "witness to history," a narrative of the historical and political disasters that visited the nation. In this insightful book, Jaroslaw Anders examines Poland's modern poetry and fiction and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940962736Author Tamara TrojanowskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Piasa BooksPublisher Piasa BooksWeight(grams) 554g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252871Author Russell Scott ValentinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357979986Author A I KuprinFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357925341Author Vuk Stefanovic BowringFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357973274Author Leonid AndreyevFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357973939Author Graf Leo TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357970440Author Boleslaw Prus AlFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357929165Author Maksim GorkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357911757Author Boris PilniakFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357922043Author Alexander Lange KiellandPage Count 94Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Winner of the 1998 Misha Djordjevic Award for the best book on Serbian culture in English.Editors Gorup and Obradovic have collected stories from thirty-five outstanding writers in this first English anthology of Serbian fiction in thirty years. The...

Born into a Polish szlachta (noble) family, the extraordinary modern novelist Joseph Conrad maintained, even in exile, strong ties to his Polish heritage and culture. Yet the author earned renown by writing in English, often about nautical adventures in...

This volume presents a galaxy of traditional and modern critical approaches to Joseph Conrad's oeuvre, ranging from biographical and autobiographical studies to literary comparisons with John Milton, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and...

In this collection, French intellectuals and scholars comment on the relationship between British novelist Joseph Conrad's work and French culture and criticism. The book presents readings of Conrad's major texts by several generations of critics, such...

Why did Joseph Conrad avoid using English, except when it came to the arduous task of writing fiction? And how do we account for his extensive "borrowing" from French writers? This psycholinguistic examination delves into the creative mind of...

The twentieth volume in the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series, Conrad and Turgenev: Towards the Real offers a comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad's and Ivan Turgenev's output and focuses on their outlooks and ideas concerning art,...

Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature-the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvik Vaculik, and Jachym Topol, among many others-has, in fact, just recently become widely available to readers. Long published only...

Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789949327478Author Ljubov KisseljovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint University of Tartu PressPublisher University of Tartu PressWeight(grams) 367g

Joseph Conrad and the Voicing of Textuality offers an original approach to Conrad's work rooted in linguistics and psychoanalytic theory. Claude Maisonnat provides fresh insight into the poetics of textuality by introducing the concept of textual voice,...

Joseph Conrad's Texts and Intertexts. In Honour of Professor Wieslaw Krajka is a collection of studies that examine various aspects of Joseph Conrad's literary art, with the organizing ideas being textuality and intertextuality, both broadly understood...

This monograph brings together studies that deal with various aspects of Joseph Conrad's literary art. The core concept organizing its structure is intertextuality. Intertextual relationships are seen in terms of either affinities/points of contact and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857284044Author Craig BrandistFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

The collection is comprised of twelve scholarly essays written by leading Chekhov specialists from around the world, each analysing an interpretation of Chekhov by one of three Russian thinkers of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov,...

The collection is comprised of twelve scholarly essays written by leading Chekhov specialists from around the world, each analysing an interpretation of Chekhov by one of three Russian thinkers of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843318408Author Craig BrandistFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

This book outlines a fresh and coherent framework for the apprehension of Akhmatova's oeuvre in its totality, seeing her as a poet who moves beyond modernism in her later period. The appeal to postmodernism, which is in itself innovatory with regard to...

Using Vladimir Nabokov as its "case study," this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies...

For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule. What is the legacy of this period for cultural attitudes to the environment and the contemporary battle to confront climate change? This is the first in-depth study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929497334Author Helen ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 362g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929497327Author Helen ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 370g

An illuminating new study of modern Polish verse in performance, offering a major reassessment of the roles of poets and poetry in twentieth-century Polish culture.What's in a voice? Why record oneself reading a poem that also exists on paper? In recent...